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This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the book provides concrete suggestions on how individuals and communities of faith must act in order to address the challenge of climate change. Despite the fact that Africa has contributed relatively little to historic carbon emissions, the continent will be affected disproportionally by the increasing impact of anthropogenic climate change. Contributors to this book provide a range of rich case studies to investigate how religious traditions such as Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and indigenous faiths influence the worldviews and actions of their adherents. The chapters also interrogate how the moral authority and leadership provided by religion can be used to respond and adapt to the challenges posed by climate change. Topics covered include risk reduction and resilience, youth movements, indigenous knowledge systems, environmental degradation, gender perspectives, ecological theories, and climate change financing. This book will be of interest to scholars in diverse fields, including religious studies, sociology, political science, climate change and environmental humanities. It may also benefit practitioners involved in solving community challenges related to climate change.

Most African countries are burdened by undernutrition and all indications are that we are set to be particularly hard-hit by the growing burden of overnutrition. Despite significant investments, progress to optimize nutritional status is variable. Nutrition in Africa is about change – it is a multisectoral process that has to lead. Leaders are change agents and are required throughout the whole system at all levels. Effective leaders develop a special combination of values, attitudes, orientations and behaviours in addition to their excellent technical skills. The African Nutrition Leadership Programme (ANLP) has hosted a series of leader development events since 2002 and has built a Pan-African network of more than 380 leaders in 35 African countries working in multiple nutrition-related sectors. The ANLP's focus is on the development of the individual's leadership capabilities. Since 2010 the ANLP has also developed a number of needs-based leadership development programmes for multisectoral teams and organisations at national and subnational level who contribute towards scaling up nutrition interventions. Programmes have been hosted in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia with more being developed for implementation in the near future. Recognising the urgent demand, the ANLP has started developing a larger group of master trainers to facilitate the scaling up of leadership capacity building across the continent. Leader development is also of importance to enhance the employability of science graduates. The NWU has developed a personal development programme which includes aspects of self awareness, contextualizing your behavior in the workplace and conflict resolution among others. The programme has been piloted in a cohort of graduate interns and the second cohort are now engaged with the programme. The self-awareness created set participants up for a process of life-long learning and growing. In addition the need has been identified and programme initiated to embed leadership development in the dietetics curriculum to ensure that we develop a workforce that have the ability and the necessary orientations and values to stand up and lead from where they are. These programmes are examples of ongoing capacity development initiatives that are African-led and that impact the functional capacity of our nutrition workforce

Part 2: Open Government Data and Transparency ; International audience ; Local governments are increasingly looking for new ways to involve citizens in policy and decision-making, for example by combining public sector data sources with data gathered by citizens. Several examples exist of data gathering where personal mobile devices act as data collectors. While these efforts illustrate the technical capability of data sourcing, they neglect the value of local knowledge where people use their senses to capture and interpret data. Traditional data gathering initiatives, however, exploit this local knowledge to inform policy makers, e.g., neighborhood policing. To understand data gathering processes of these traditional data gathering initiatives, three cases are examined. We analyze these cases, focusing on the various elements they contain, concluding how digital data gathering can be informed by these traditional variants, concerning what the benefits of using digital means can be for data gathering and how traditional initiatives ensure data re-use by the public sector.

This paper provides a brief history of the conflict between South African sheep farmers and predators (and we touch also on the debate between diverse stakeholders over how best to respond to that conflict). We focus in particular on black-backed jackals and commercial sheep farmers in the Western Cape Karoo, drawing on historical sources, colonial records, early ecological thinking and observations by farmers to paint a picture of this dynamic conflict. The paper forms part of an inter-disciplinary project about sheep farming and predators in the Karoo

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions (e.g. e-health, telemedicine, e-education) are often viewed as vehicles to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban healthcare centres and to resolve shortcomings in the rural health sector. This study focused on factors perceived to influence the uptake and use of ICTs as e-health solutions in selected rural Eastern Cape healthcare centres, and on structural variables relating to these facilities and processes. Attention was also given to two psychological variables that may underlie an individual's acceptance and use of ICTs: usefulness and ease of use. Recommendations are made with regard to how ICTs can be used more effectively to improve health systems at five rural healthcare centres where questionnaire and interview data were collected: St. Lucy's Hospital, Nessie Knight Hospital, the Tsilitwa Clinic, the Madzikane Ka-Zulu Memorial Hospital and the Nelson Mandela General Hospital.